Tanzania slaughters over 11000 elephants a year for the bloody trade in tusks ...

Daily Mail
Tanzania slaughters over 11000 elephants a year for the bloody trade in tusks ...
Daily Mail
In the gilded grandeur of London's Lancaster House this week, the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete, will be greeted with smiles and handshakes by the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, David Cameron and William Hague. Yet this diplomatic ...

Daily Mail

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

Huffington Post

04 Sep

Artificial Elephant Tusks Are Being Used To Help Track The Illegal Ivory Trade

Huffington Post
Artificial Elephant Tusks Are Being Used To Help Track The Illegal Ivory Trade
Huffington Post
The replicas are equipped with GPS tracking technology to allow law enforcement to follow their path. Headshot of Joseph Erbentraut. Joseph Erbentraut Chicago Editor, The Huffington Post. Posted: 09/04/2015 02:07 PM EDT.
Video: Ivory Trade and Slave Trade Linked Throughout HistoryNational Geographic
Ivory smugglers exposed using fake elephant tusks with GPS trackers...

 

10 years ago

Michuzi

UK Trade & Investment London/South East Trade Mission to Tanzania

14 UK companies cutting across various sectors e.g. Education and Training, Security, Consultancy, Healthcare amongst others are hoping to penetrate new trade opportunities within Tanzania by taking part in UKTI London and South East trade mission to Tanzania between October 22nd-24th 2014. 
This is the first, independent visit by UKTI London and South East to Tanzania and East Africa.

Tanzania is fast emerging as a thriving commercial entity with a GDP growth rate of over 7% year upon year....

 

11 years ago

Daily News

14 Feb

Tanzania abandons sale of tusks stockpile

Tanzania abandons sale of tusks stockpile
Daily News
TANZANIA has dropped its plan to ask the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to allow it to sell its stockpile of 112 tonnes of elephant tusks in order to reduce the demand for ivory in the market, it has been confirmed. Instead ...

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

23 Jan

Tanzania police seize 61 elephant tusks in southern region

Tanzania police seize 61 elephant tusks in southern region
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Police in Tanzania's southern region of Mtwara said on Thursday that they have seized 61 elephant tusks and arrested two suspects in connection with the tusks. Augustine Ollomi, Mtwara regional police commander, ...

 

9 years ago

South China Morning Post (Subscription)

09 Oct

Tanzania charges Chinese woman dubbed the 'Queen of Ivory' for smuggling 700 tusks

South China Morning Post (subscription)
Tanzania charges Chinese woman dubbed the 'Queen of Ivory' for smuggling 700 tusks
South China Morning Post (subscription)
They call her the Queen of Ivory – a 66-year-old Chinese woman who became famous for her role in Africa's illegal wildlife trade. Over 15 years, she helped smuggle more than 700 elephant tusks out of Africa, officials said on Thursday. But as ...
'Queen of Ivory' charged in Tanzania in major crackdown on poachingThe Seattle...

 

10 years ago

And Their Devastating Poaching

22 Jun

The African elephants of Tanzania

The African elephants of Tanzania - and their devastating poaching
Telegraph.co.uk
The huge grey body collapsed into the mud, rolling and wallowing like a pig in muck, however this was no piglet but a magnificent African bull elephant. First he bent his knees and covered his belly, then he rolled onto his side, using his trunk to spray himself.
WildAid Launches Major Elephant Campaign in TanzaniaEcorazzi

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10 years ago

Mail &Amp; Guardian Online

05 Jun

Tanzania's elephants under siege

Mail & Guardian Online
Tanzania's elephants under siege
Mail & Guardian Online
Tanzania has emerged as the epicentre of Africa's elephant poaching crisis after a government census revealed it had lost a “catastrophic” 60% of its elephants in just five years. The results will pile pressure on a government that has been heavily criticised for ...
Tanzania in denial over 60% elephant population crashThe Ecologist
Tanzania in denial and still trying to spin elephant poaching crisisThe Economic Voice...

 

10 years ago

The New Indian Express

19 Jul

Inside The Elephants' Graveyard of Tanzania

Quartz
Inside The Elephants' Graveyard of Tanzania
The New Indian Express
As Howard Frederick flew in a Cessna low over the scrubland of Tanzania's Selous game reserve, it was the complete absence of elephants rather than the piles of scattered bones he saw that chilled him most. The team conducting the aerial wildlife ...
Watch how drones keep elephants away from danger in TanzaniaQuartz

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10 years ago

WND.Com

23 Jul

60% of Tanzania's elephants disappeared in 5 years

WND.com
60% of Tanzania's elephants disappeared in 5 years
WND.com
(National Geographic) The East African nation of Tanzania has been the main source of illegal ivory from savanna elephants for nearly a decade, according to a new DNA study of tusks from confiscated ivory shipments. The country's elephant population ...

 

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